TCT 316: Incidence and Clinical Outcomes of Stent Fractures Based on 6555 Patients and 16482 Drug-Eluting Stents From Four Centers Receive the the latest news, research, and presentations from major ...

Chordal-sparing mitral valve replacement may be reasonable over downsized annuloplasty repair in patients with Stage D secondary MR who are undergoing mitral valve surgery because of severe ...

Normal mitral-valve function depends on the complex interactions of all the components of the valve apparatus ().In surgical series, the most common causes of severe mitral regurgitation are ...

Degenerative disease is the most common form of organic mitral-valve disease in the United States (with an estimated incidence of 2 to 3%) 1,2 and in other developed countries. Mitral-valve ...

In this state-of-the-art Review, Michele De Bonis and colleagues discuss the optimal management of patients with degenerative or function mitral regurgitation, from established surgical techniques ...

Schematic illustration demonstrating various potential abnormalities of the subvalvular apparatus that may occur in ... which is accompanied by systolic motion of the anterior mitral leaflet ...

Future Cardiol. 2009;5(5):511-516. The coronary sinus approach is limited by several factors. The anatomical association of the coronary sinus with the posterior mitral annulus is imperfect and ...

This is called “systolic anterior motion” of the mitral valve or SAM. Mitral regurgitation can result and contribute to congestive heart failure symptoms in the setting of HOCM. Read more about ...

Norway-based CardioMech AS, a medical device company developing a transfemoral, transseptally delivered mitral valve chordal repair technology in Fridley, MN, today announced it has closed on $13M ...

In the first 9 months of 2014, Sorin reported revenue of €550.4 million ($675.6 million), with all but €1.9 million ($2.3 million) coming from its cardiac surgery and cardiac rhythm management ...